Mantegna Tarocchi

Researches to the socalled Mantegna Tarocchi

The series of the motifs of the Mantegna Tarocchi started probably with a discussion about the iconography of the 9 Muses in the 40ies of the 15th century at the court of Ferrara.

We try to collect earlier ideas and interpretations of the Mantegna Tarocchi. Of course the current collection is incomplete and in development.
We think, that Arthur M. Hind established an error in his research in the year 1938.

We counter "Hind's error" with an alternative explanation of the origin of the socalled Mantegna Tarocchi. We call our explanation the "Lazzarelli Hypothesis".

Of course - these texts have only a provisionally state. Our research is still running.

Trionfi.com has its focus on Tarot History and especially the origin of Tarot in 15th century, also the representation of about
100 000 Tarot and other playing cards in the Tarot Museum.
The chapter "Mantegna Tarocchi" presents specific material to the socalled "Mantegna Tarocchi"
- it's likely not produced by Andrea Mantegna, the famous painter.
We present a specific hypothesis, by us called "Lazzarelli hypothesis", which contradicts common opinions about the objects, 50 copperplate engravings, which are sorted in a 5x10-scheme and of
which not a single playing card deck of the early time has survived, but a lot of "normal" copperplate engravings (general opinion assumes, that they were never polaying cards in the early time). Common opinion usually says, based on the
representation and arguments of Arthur M. Hind in the year 1938, that this composition was manufactured around 1465 ... we contradict and assume, that it was produced, after
Ludovico Lazzarelli found some pictures in a Venetian bookstore and composed out of them 27 illuminations accompanying a manuscript. Then the final redaction would have been surely after
1470 ... for special reasons we suggest a date around 1475.
The Mantegna Tarocchi is extant in two different versions, one is called E-series and normally assumed to be the older, the other is called S-series.
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